![]() He sees strange marks on the back of his head that look like a face. The Spread of Ian Nicol is about a man, Ian Nicol, who discovers he’s splitting in half one day. The Star is an unusual choice for a collection of stories aimed at adults but is so well written and charming it doesn’t matter. Gray leaves us wondering if the boy found a star or just a marble. A teacher finds it and tells the boy he can’t bring marbles to school to play with. The Star is a charming fable about a young boy who sees what he believes to be a star fall to earth and land in his back garden. The collection contains many of Gray’s own impressive illustrations. Gray’s imagination, skill and style as a writer are quite unlike anything I’ve ever come across before. The stories in Unlikely Stories, Mostly remind me of the best bits of Lanark. I’ve wanted to read more of Gray since then. In my humble opinion Lanark is one of the greatest novels ever written. I didn’t think it was my thing and was proven wrong. ![]() ![]() I became a fan of Gray’s when I read his novel Lanark about a year ago after a friend and fellow book worm gave me a spare copy and badgered me to read it. This new edition, includes a new unlikely story, “Inches in a Column”, that was lost at the time of original publication.Ī star had fallen beyond the horizon, in Canada maybe (THE STAR). Alasdair Gray’s first book of short stories is a masterful collection that further established him as one of Scotland’s most original and important ![]()
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